"Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice should be required reading for all clinical practitioners and students. Author Susan W. Gray provides a competency-based assessment model that moves away from looking at mental illness as a 'disease' to capturing people's strengths and the uniqueness of their experience with mental illness."—Alex GittermaZachs Professor and Director of PhD Program

"Competency-Based Assessment in Mental Health Practice not only describes the rather cumbersome DSM-IV-TR® in a manner that graduate students and clinicians can easily understand and apply, but it also presents a competency-based type of clinical assessment that most effectively integrates the social work practice orientation that acknowledges, appreciates, and nurtures client strengths, resilience, and client ability for empowerment."—Agathi Glezakos, PhD, LCSWSchool of Social WorkCalifornia State University, Long Beach

Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice introduces a unique, competency-based assessment that presents a brief overview of the major mental disorders that practitioners will likely encounter in their work with clients, followed by a series of case studies and practical applications.

This book provides valuable guidance for clinicians to make assessments grounded in client strengths and possibilities for a more therapeutically complete picture of every client's "story."

Organized around selected diagnostic categories from the DSM-IV-TR, this hands-on guide offers a multidimensional look at the many factors that play a role in a client's life. Its holistic approach to the assessment process considers each client's unique experience with mental illness, through a concurrent evaluation of strengths and pathology, in order to set the stage for realistic optimism about the potential for change.

Susan W. Gray, PhD, EdD, LCSW, is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Barry University and was a member of the task force responsible for creating the Advanced Practice in Clinical Social Work Standards for the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

"Competency-Based Assessments in Mental Health Practice
should be required reading for all clinical practitioners and
students. Author Susan Gray provides a competency-based assessment
model that moves away from looking at mental illness as a "disease"
to capturing people's strengths and the uniqueness of their
experience with mental illness."
—Alex Gitterman, Zachs Professor and Director of Ph.D.
Program University of Connecticut School of Social Work

"Competency-Based Assessment in Mental Health Practice
not only describes the rather cumbersome DSM-IV in a manner that
graduate students and clinicians can easily understand and apply,
but it also presents a competency-based type of clinical assessment
that most effectively integrates the social work practice
orientation that acknowledges, appreciates, and nurtures client
strengths, resilience, and client ability for empowerment."
—Agathi Glezakos, PhD, LCSW, School of Social Work,
California State University, Long Beach

Competency-Based Assessments in
Mental Health Practice should be required reading for all clinical
practitioners and students. Author Susan Gray provides a
competency-based assessment model that moves away from looking at
mental illness as a “disease” to capturing
people’s strengths and the uniqueness of their experience
with mental illness.

Alex Gitterman

Zachs Professor and Director of Ph.D.
Program

University
of Connecticut School of Social Work

Competency-Based Assessment in Mental
Health Practice not only describes the rather cumbersome DSM-IV in
a manner that graduate students and clinicians can easily
understand and apply, but it also presents a competency-based type
of clinical assessment that most effectively integrates the social
work practice orientation that acknowledges, appreciates, and
nurtures client strengths, resilience, and client ability for
empowerment.

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